The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 45
PT. 16 36. "It does not MARYAM Majesty of Allah to take unto Himself a CH. 19 مَا كَانَ لِلَّهِ أَنْ يَتَّخِذَ مِنْ وَلَدٍ سُبْحَنَه befit the اِذَا قَضَى أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُنُ son Holy is He فَيَكُونُ When He decrees a thing, He says to it, 'Be!', and it is. 2180 10:69; 17:112; 18:5; 19:89; 21:27; 25:3; 39:5. birth constituted a rebuke and a warning to the Israelites that on account of their persistent rejection of truth and God's Messengers, and their immoral practices the whole Israelite nation had been rendered quite unfit to give birth to a Prophet of God and therefore prophethood, in accordance with God's covenant with Abraham, was transferred from the House of Israel to that of Ishmael (see Introduction to this Surah). They further believe that Jesus was hung on the cross by the Jews but did not die there and was taken down from it alive and for three days remained in a (son of man) but this epithet has been used in the Bible for other persons also. So (son of Mary) is at once a distinctive and descriptive name of Jesus. 2180. Important Words: It does not befit the Majesty) ما كان الله does not befit him; behove him; it is of Allah). They say a obl. i. e. (1) it inconsistent with his dignity; it is not proper for him; (2) it is beyond his a 6. means, it is inconsistent with power to do so. In the present verse the Majesty of Allah or it does not Mufradāt). See also 2:35. befit His Holiness (Aqrab, Lane & Commentary: express two ان يتخذ من ولد The words senses (a) that He should have a son; and (b) that He should adopt someone as His son. When it is inconsistent with God's Majesty to adopt someone as His son, it is all the more repugnant to His Holiness and Glory to have a real son. These words repudiate the Christian belief, namely tomb hewn out of a rock and then travelled to Kashmir to preach his Message to the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. He lived up to the ripe old age of 120 years, died a natural death and lies buried in Khanyar street in Srinagar, Kashmir. In fact, the existence of so many and so serious differences about Jesus implies a rebuke to Christians that there is nothing certain about their god. The expression "son of Mary" ( (i) that God has adopted Jesus as His ☑) is Jesus' distinctive name. Whereas on the one hand it seems to point to his fatherless birth, on the other it confers on him a name which is incapable of being confused with that of anybody else. The Gospels have also used for Jesus the epithet 1959 son or (ii) that Jesus is God's son. Christians believe that Jesus was God's son. The onus for proving such a manifestly absurd belief lies on them. They base this belief on the assumption that the Bible calls him the son of God. But in the Bible other